Weird Wednesday: Everything but the kitchen sink! (UPDATE II: with Tazio Nuvolari!)

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When in Essen we thought we had seen everything, we found it: the kitchen sink! The Horch Museum in Zwickau brought this 930S with streamlined bodywork. It was designed by Paul Jaray in 1939 but due to the outbreak of the war only a few were produced in 1946 and 1948. The Horch had air-conditioning, a radio, fully reclining seats and hot and cold running water from this washbasin hiding in the front fender. Surely a great gimmick when you want to wash up after pick-nick or after changing a tyre.

Update II by Ivan Barantsev who sends us this picture of Tazio Nuvolari with the Horch. Back in 2005 he also wrote an article about the Horch. (editor: unfortunately for us it’s in Russian, but note the pre-war and post-war styling differences).
Update I by Kees Smit: "I doubt whether Paul Jaray styled the Horch 930S. It's body was styled by Auto-Union's styling department run by Günther Mikauwitch and Albert Locke. They were patented on the name of Albert Locke. The styling is similar to DKW's 1939 Berlin-Rome sportscar and the DKW "Hohe Klasse" / F9 prototype", the post war Type 3=6."

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